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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
53 Comments
mikalye
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:08 PM |
Not completely comfortable with 9, and even 10, but the rest of them work fairly straightforwardly.
must67
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:11 PM |
not getting 9
comishcraig
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:12 PM |
some of those were harder then I expected. #3 could have been clued better. I liked #9 the best. That was the last one I figured out.
threehojos
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:15 PM |
NVM
Post n solve
comishcraig
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:14 PM |
[4] They are what you think they are. The spelling is drastically different, though.
UbiDubi
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:18 PM |
I can't seem to get #2. I think I know who she is, but it's not helping.
For the record, I think #9 is the best one.
spoofme
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:19 PM |
Any help with 11 and 3?
-I think I have 2 wrong too
Markel
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:19 PM |
2 has me stumped
Markel
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:20 PM |
[7] for 11, think of a British bus stop
comishcraig
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:20 PM |
[7] #3...you're looking for the action represented and then apply the puzzle theme.
#11 They do this in England a lot. Also...do you have a Netflix account?
slog
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:20 PM |
[6] kg m^2 / s^2
comishcraig
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:21 PM |
[6][8] Think electricity
UbiDubi
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:22 PM |
[11]
Uhh?
Tahnan
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:22 PM |
#12 is, alas, just plain wrong. And I'm not thrilled with #9 either. But, mostly: haven't we seen this Hypercross theme before? (Often?)
loserkid7182
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:22 PM |
any help on 12?
johninc
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:24 PM |
[15] It holds the cradle up.
Am I the only one not getting the chickspeak? (21)
slog
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:24 PM |
[15] When it breaks the baby will fall.
BadMagic
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:25 PM |
[15] Use an alternative pronunciation of the word represented by the picture.
Tahnan
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:25 PM |
...OK, to be clear: #12 is an illustration of the wrong pronunciation of that word. It should show a man bending forward at the waist.
Donimo
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:27 PM |
Can't find my error. Can I TG someone?
Markel
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:30 PM |
I think some of the problem here is that several of these words are triple homophones
EVDebs
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:31 PM |
[16] Nope. I'm also missing 21, I think.
Markel
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:33 PM |
Found out that I had a singular on 10 instead of a plural.
Donimo
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:35 PM |
[23] Ah. That was it. Thanks!
nrkii
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:40 PM |
I had issues with 12 as well.
EVDebs
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:52 PM |
Any help on 21 would be greatly appreciated!
LordXerxes
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:54 PM |
I don't want to be stingy with the salt, but I am stumped on 9.
j15bell
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 07:58 PM |
#9 and #21 for me also. halp!
A_Beaverhausen
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 08:16 PM |
I don't have them yet and I don't know my mistake, but if I have 21 right, I'm reminded of an overly thrifty husband and his wife standing among a bunch of chicks and she says, "Listen, they're talking about you. They're saying '*****, *****'" As for 9, I think it's referring to the small body of water. Perhaps you have a fish one in your yard. You kind of have to apply a little bit of an accent to get the word in the puzzle. I think my problem is #3, but I'm not sure.
Edit... Figured it out. My clues for 9 and 21 are correct.
EVDebs
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 08:15 PM |
[29] That did it! Thanks!
It turns out I had #9 entirely wrong.
spoofme
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 08:32 PM |
Everything looks correct, but I still don't have it. Anyone around that I could TG?
[31] TG sent
A_Beaverhausen
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 08:21 PM |
And can I also point out the irony here? The official Tanga grammar and spelling police is the creator of this puzzle.
A_Beaverhausen
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 08:22 PM |
[31] sure!
j15bell
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 09:35 PM |
I feel I have them all. But it won't take. size!!!!!
canyc
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 09:51 PM |
[21] #3 is a triple homophone, but only two variants fit the blanks, and you can tell which to use once you get the cross words
jbsegal
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:11 PM |
Yeah... I'm not happy with 9, either, but at least one website out there claims they are, in fact, homophonous... I wonder what regional dialect you need to have for that to be the case.
Ah well. 97th anyway, and with the new point structure, that's vaguely meaningful.
j15bell
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:20 PM |
seems even if some have more than one homophone only one will fit. still won't take for me.
jgf
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:00 PM |
[11][13] #2 If m/s^2 is acceleration, and mass times acceleration is force, then what is mass times force? That's your m*kg^2/s^2. I felt this could have been clued better because I was trying to think of homophones for onyx and stuff.
#9 My problem with this clue was that it wasn't very clear what the body of water was. From that angle, I thought it was a bend in a river rather than an enclosed pool of water.
#12 The answer is a homophone of the homonym of the item pictured. I hope no one was a homophobe. See [19].
#21 Yeah, I totally did not get this until [29] all but gave it away.
Could have been a fun puzzle, but some clues just made it frustrating instead.
Rickj4029
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:00 AM |
Is it safe to post?
I agree with others here that some were clued poorly. #9 & #12 in particular. Otherwise, a good effort.
(For those of you who have conspired to have my posts removed, feel free to do so again.)
j15bell
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 04:59 AM |
this is plaguing me now. trying to figure out what I have wrong.
#6 someday they will be done within and hour? yes?
#7 I think I have finally hammered out? possibly I'm wrong. yes?
#9 Well, what I came up with just seems wrong in so many ways. I feel no security that I have it correct.
[39] I think it's finally safe to post whatever help anyone out there can give those of us that keep shaking their heads back and forth! =)
j15bell
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 05:36 AM |
finally!
thanks!!! you know who you are. =)
spamwise
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 07:36 AM |
For #9, use the homophone of the homonym. (Boy, wouldn't that be a difficult theme.)
hatemachine
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 08:11 AM |
OK, I agree #12 is no good (I blame the mods for not yelling at me :) )...but I still like the rest. As far as seeing this theme before [14], I created this puzzle before seeing any of those puzzles. Is it really inconceivable that several people have the same idea for a puzzle? Irony [32]? Where are the spelling and grammar errors in the puzzle Beave?
j01969
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:01 AM |
Good one, confusing at first, but once you get the idea, it's a lot of fun! #9 is tough, but solvable with some thought. The clue in the comments that helped me was to think of a body of water with fish in it. Once I had solved #4, #19 and #21; it all fell into place. Thx, hatemachine!
j15bell
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:31 AM |
This is a fun, challenging hypercross. Much better IMHO than a zip through it, easy, peasy one. Or should I say funner.
I come to Tanga to make my brain hurt. Love a challenge. And like everyone else will whine (or wine) after I've exhausted my current brain power which is relative to what is going on around me at the time (kids, conversations that NEED to happen right at puzzle time release or my own intellectual inadequacies - aack!).
Basically I love it when a puzzle maker adheres to the initial statement under their username: wants to stump you with this................
hatemachine. you did just that. mission accomplished. loved the trip, got off track a bit, when I finally asked for directions I reached the destination. =)
Murdoctor
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:27 PM |
[19] Or the answer should instead have been another word for "boyfriend"...
kevboy
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 05:24 PM |
help on #14?
Edit: nm got it. Thought it was a sled :)
A_Beaverhausen
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 07:19 PM |
What I meant was that I thought that it was amusing that the title was "Spelling Bee" but none of the words are spelled as they are presented in the pictures. I did not mean "spelling and grammar police" as an insult, it's a term that I use to refer to my mother all of the time and I mean it in a funny way.
houck
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:15 PM |
Whew!
JohnQ118
Posted on Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:41 PM |
got it.
#12 notwithstanding (it was b-a-d) this was a good hyper puzzle.
Tahnan
Posted on Fri Nov 21, 2008 03:36 AM |
[43] -- I didn't mean to suggest you were copying anyone. I have no doubt that you came up with the theme independently. I was just grousing about the fact that it's, well, a little commonplace.
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